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Dr Marco Bertamini, from the University’s School of Psychology, conducted a number of experiments by covering a mirror on a wall and inviting participants to walk along a line parallel to the mirror. He asked them to guess the point at which they would be able to see their reflection. Results showed that people believe [...]

A group in the middle east who previously infected PCs with a rootkit via IM, apparently installed BitTorrent without user permission on infected machines, then started piping movies to the end users. As a new technique used by the bad guys, thats pretty scary stuff.
And…they piped Mr Bean?!? [digg]
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Three Los Angeles men who sold modified Xbox units have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to “traffic in a technology used to circumvent a copyright protection system.” Of course they are referring to that scourge of hackers everywhere, the federal DMCA, which explicitly prohibits any such circumvention.
While this case only involves the original Xbox, it [...]

A poster on the official Xbox forums has uploaded what looks to be an authentic Best Buy Retail Insider flier verifying the coming of a third Xbox 360 shipment. Store owners given precise instructions on how to handle the new shipment, including no sales to on or off duty employees!
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No signing up, no creating an account. Just put in phone number, enter message and select network and off you go. Easy as that. Has a wide range of networks to choose from but I haven’t tried it out yet.
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How many fake iPods are out there? Countless. I’ve done reports on about four of these but there are many that go unreported. This is the best fake I’ve seen yet. Not much difference at all. It has the same buttons, nearly the same packaging, the same headphones and even a double leafed Apple logo! [...]

Artists idea of a black iMac
With the ever increasing popularity of the black iPods could we see a black iMac in the future, perhaps in 2006 when the Intel Macs come around?
The official verdict is in that black is the preferred consumer color for iPods, if you go by Amazon’s Black Friday’s statistics, that is. [...]

The Hobbit still faces legal hurdles before Jackson can make the missing film in the Lord of the Rings saga. However, there’s still a chance we’ll get to see Bilbo’s first journey in a few years’ time.
Peter Jackson explained the Hobbit situation to the media during the King Kong premiere gala: “MGM used to own [...]

A Japanese college is introducing ID cards on the students mobile phones, because they know that they will be clumsy enough to leave their cards at home, but probably not their phones.
That’s the idea behind a plan being implemented at Japan’s Kanagawa Institute of Technology, where IDs will be stored on cellphones beginning this spring. [...]

Cutting in front of people patiently waiting for their 360s is a serious offence these days, as a Baltimore man found out on Sunday. He was arrested for “disorderly conduct” and more than two dozen police officers, complete with dogs and pepper spray, flocked to the store. [Xbox 360 Fanboy]
One word: stupid. Some laws in [...]